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June 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A US-led coalition air strike killed at least seven children at a religious school in Afghanistan, hours after one of the deadliest suicide bombings since the Taliban were toppled from power in 2001. Full news...
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June 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
US State Department Trafficking in Persons Report: Afghanistan is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude. Afghan children are trafficked internally and to Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Zimbabwe for commercial sexual exploitation, forced marriage to settle debts or disputes, forced begging, debt bondage, service as child soldiers, or other forms of involuntary servitude. Full news...
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June 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Shakir sits at the side of the road, his head buried in his hands, 10 broken eggs melding with the dust at his feet. Shakir's trick reflects the competitive world of child beggars in Kabul, a city clogged by a population of around 4 million people that exploded after the 2001 fall of the Taliban regime led exiles home and jobseekers to the capital. Full news...
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June 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Abdul Kabir, not his real name, left his home in Afghanistan's southern Urozgan province to work for a relative and attend school in neighbouring Kandahar province. Six months later, the 12-year-old found himself in a juvenile prison after being sexually abused. Full news...
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May 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Sadaf started consuming opium seven years ago after she could not find any medicine to overcome a headache that had bothered her for weeks. "When I first smoked opium I felt dizzy for a while, but did not have a headache - so I continued," the mother of four told IRIN in the Yamgan District of Afghanistan's northeastern Badakshan province. Full news...
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May 11, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: From dawn to dusk black smoke rises from the towering chimneys of brick-making factories in the Sorkhroad district of Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar. Seven-year-old Rahatullah works with his father and elder brother, Habibullah, aged 12, in a brick factory for over 12 hours a day. Full news...
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April 25, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Press TV: A UN official has called for outside investment in women's health in Afghanistan to curb high rates of maternal deaths in the war-ravaged country. Full news...
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April 21, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan's Taliban movement has used a 12-year-old boy to execute a man accused of helping U.S. forces hunt down and kill one of its top commanders in December, Al Arabiya television reported on Saturday. Full news...
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April 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Hindu: An old artillery shell exploded outside a school compound in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing three children and wounding four others, an official said. Full news...
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March 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A suicide bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed a child and wounded a NATO soldier and three other people Saturday in southern Afghanistan, officials said. Full news...
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March 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera has discovered that despite billions of dollars of aid being poured into Afghanistan in the past five years Afghan children are still dying because of hunger and poverty. Full news...
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February 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Sangima watched her sister-in-law Mastbegeen die trying to give birth to her seventh child. The baby was born prematurely and there was excessive bleeding during labour. There were no doctors or trained midwives near her village in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakshan to help so her family had to watch her life ebb away; the child did not survive either. Full news...
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February 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Standing at a security checkpoint dressed in a battered combat jacket and leaking boots, Zaralam said he had joined the "army" because he had to earn some money for his family. "It's tough working day and night, but I earn 2,000 Afghanis [US $40] a month and get some food too," the 14-year old military policeman told IRIN in the Daman district of the southern city of Kandahar. Full news...
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January 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Ms. Magazine: A second drought in Afghanistan has affected over two-and-a-half million villagers, some of whom are selling their young daughters as brides in order to feed and clothe their families. Full news...
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January 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Ahmad Wali, 9, is combing the rubbish dump for soda cans to sell as a way to support his 11-member family in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Thousands of children work the streets to help their households through the harsh winter. Full news...
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January 14, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Time: They should be the happiest boys in Afghanistan. Zekeria, Ahmad and Ali have been plucked from their home in war-ravaged Kabul to star in "The Kite Runner," the long-awaited Hollywood film of Khaled Hosseini's bestselling novel. Full news...
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January 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War and Peace Reporting: "The girl who was exchanged for a dog" has become a sensation around the world, sparking outrage in human rights circles. But the canine connection is a minor part of the story, a curiosity that served as a hook to bring the case to public attention. Full news...
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January 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: The prevailing cold wave has claimed lives of 11 children and women in the Shibar district of the central Bamyan province last week. Full news...
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January 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Insecurity and intimidation by gunmen kept some 50,000 school-age children away from continuing their education during the past year in the southern province of Ghazni, officials say. Full news...
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December 12, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Idris, 16, sells cigarettes for a living. Walking along the road in Herat with a wooden box hanging from his neck, he confesses that he had moved onto stronger substances. "I didn't want to become addicted, but I started smoking since I was selling cigarettes," he said. Full news...
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December 6, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP - KABUL - Farida's son inherited her drug addiction in the womb, and drank her opium-laced breast milk. And when he cried and fussed, she calmed him with specks of opium diluted in tea. Full news...
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November 27, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: More than half of Afghanistan's children are not going to school because of a shortage of places and teachers, the aid agency Oxfam says. Full news...
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October 31, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PeaceReporter - Lashkargah: I don’t know their names, I don’t even know their age. They weren’t in condition to talk. They are five “presumed Taliban” arrived on Tuesday to the Emergency hospital in Lashkargah, placed in south Afghanistan. They are coming from the Kajaki area, in the eastern land of Helmand province, they travelled for hours through the dust of the desert. But to be arrived is just a great fortune. Full news...
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October 2, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Thousands of people on Monday staged a protest demonstration against the presence of armed commanders in the northern Takhar province. Full news...
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May 14, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA: On April 18th 2006, hundreds of people in the Takhar province of northern Afghanistan staged a demonstration to raise their voices against the brutalities of the war- and drug-lords whose presence has become a dominating factor in their homeland. Full news...
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April 12, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Chicago Tribune: The strangers came in the middle of the night. They tied up the school caretakers with turbans and shoved them into a classroom. Then they broke the school windows, poured fuel everywhere and set the principal's office on fire. Full news...
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March 21, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF): As Afghanistan's new school year officially begins tomorrow (Wednesday) UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director, Ms. Rima Salah, has warned of a continued threat facing Afghan women and children from high rates of child and maternal mortality, low levels of school enrolment and neglect of children's fundamental rights. Full news...
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February 8, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: 7 year old Samia has a shocking story. She is one of tens of thousands of Afghanistan's girls who fall victim of family violence in the male-chauvinistic society where fundamentalists promote and support dirty misogynistic customs. Full news...